[GRASS-user] solving libgdal.so.1 problem without root permissions

[Hamish]

dziadgba dziadgba wrote:
> thanks for help: resolved the problem by installing GDAL and setting:
> 
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH":[path to gdal]/gdal/lib/


beware if $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is empty the above will shorten to
 ":[path to gdal]/gdal/lib/", and the starting ":" will make it include
the current directory in the path, which could cause weird problems if
working with multiple copies of the libraries or create a minor security
risk.


Hamish